Heading into the 8 inning down 2-1 after Justin Smock smoked his first homer of the season to give the Mariners a 2-1 lead and the Blue Jays were looking at being swept by the Mariners after the bullpen blow up real good Monday and someone should have taught Cory Patterson how to slide as he ran into the third out in the 8 inning last night. So then the Mariners headed to their bullpen for Chris Ray which started innocently enough as Yanul Escobar got a base hit and then Cory Patterson came up and put down a good bunt and Ray waited for it to go foul but only problem was it died on the grass and the Jays had runners at first and second for Jose Bautista who Ray got to hit into a double play earlier in the series but with a 2-1 count Bautista looked for his pitch turned out to be a slider over the plate that Bautista air mailed into the bullpen for a 3 run homer to give him 3 on the season and gave the Jays a 3-2 lead. The Jays put together 4 straight 2 out hits to give themselves an extra 3 runs with Edwin Encarnacion doubling in Jayson Nix, Johnny Mac moved him to third with a single, Jose Molina doubled them both home to make it 7-2 Jays, and then Yanul Escobar got his 2 hit of the inning and 3 in the game but Patterson struck out to end the inning. The Jays gave up a run as Brendan Ryan singled in the hero of last nights game with 2 run homer Ryan Langerhans to make it 7-3 but DH J.P. singled in Travis Snider to make it 8-3 and that was thew final score.
Marc Rzepczynski pitched 2 innings and gave up 1 run on a hit and a walk with 2 strike outs and it would of been nice if he had been this good on Monday night where he walked 1 run inand then gave up a hit and 2 runs scored. Kyle Drabek pitched 5.1 innings and gave up 4 walks and 6 hits and struck out 5 and gave up 2 runs which was a struggling outing for him but he still kept the Jays in the game. The Mariners brought out Jason Vargas as their starting pitcher and in his last 10 starts he had been 0-6 with over a 6 ERA over that time but today he gave up 5 hits with an earn run, a walk, and 7 strike outs in 6.2 innings pitched which was bad for the Jays bats but came though in the end.
The surprising thing in this game was how Edwin Encarnacion played first base in place of Adam Lind who had the game off after a night game and he caught some line drives and also got to balls and throw it to the pitcher covering first and had a hit and a walk in the 5 times he came to the plate.
The Jays are 2-4 on the road trip
Tom Mehegan
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